Just been told to remove my pronouns from my Teams profile

I think that's funny. But then again I do tend to find lots of things funny particularly in the workplace which often resembles a sort of dystopian universe. Keep thinking I may wake up in 1990, realise it was all a bad dream and make better career choices.

It’s about embedding safety culture. Slips, trips and falls are common hazards, mitigate the risk by using the handrail.

Once you get people into that mindset, it makes H&S management much easier, even in an office setting.

Change it to "she / we". It literally takes the piss.

There is no difference. Both would be equally detrimental to women. I don't include pronouns in my signature and I would challenge my employer if they tried to included anything that specified my sex by default.

Yes, stair handrail in a non-industrial setting!

What's the difference between that and 'she/her' next to her name/profile? It leads to the same thing.

Do you mean hold the stair handrail?

In which case, it’s about ingraining safety behaviours and following rules put in place to protect the workforce, which ignoring in an office situation might lead to a minor injury (or worse) but ignoring in an industrial situation could be catastrophic.

The only people who NEED to know what sex someone is are sexist because sex doesn’t matter in most ? All? Work environments it’s not useful - it’s enabling assumptions to be made

Sure, that's all that's needed if you're happy for the consequent negative impact on women's careers of having attention drawn to their sex.

I don't know why these companies/institutions don't just have male/female listed, or the male or female symbol. That's all that's really needed.

I've never worked anywhere where it was mandatory. However, I've worked somewhere where it was mandatory to hold the ramp when going up and down the stairs (and where people would call you up on not doing it). Did I feel coerced? No. Did I have a private belief that it went a bit far? Yes. Did I voice this belief, mock the policy or the colleagues following it every time? No. Why? Because it was work.

Why in my dreams?

The manager is choosing to carry out a act which opens up the company to a financial loss.

Funny how pronoun policys which dont benefit female employees must be complied with/ respected/enforced but sexism is a joke.

Same old same old every single time.

Don't you mean; if she didn't pass, you'd respect her pronouns...?

LITERAL VIOLENCE.

You just called him "he" and "their".

It's ok. I know someone who says her sibling isn't a woman even though she clearly is (it's really laboured how she always uses the word "sibling") and she slips up all the time by accidentally calling her "she" and "her" instead of "they". Why wouldn't she? I've met her, she's clearly a woman and everyone who meets her knows it, just like you know your coworker is a man.

Ha ha in your dreams maybe.

And any manager who engaged in direct sex discrimination against the OP for poorly expressing a PC on the employers cheapscate investor relations fluff is a financial liability to their employer.

If he didn’t pass, I would still respect their pronouns.

I know a few trans people. One is a total arsehole but it's nothing to do with being trans. The others are all very nice and I like them (one is a bit annoying but nice). They are all very obviously the sex they are, though, and it's just really absurd that I'm supposed to perceive them as being somehow different. It's as plain as the nose on any face that the trans identified women are women like any other and the trans identified men are men like any other. Actually, it's interesting how, even with short hair and no makeup the women still exude female energy and even with a full face of slap and a dress, the men still exude male energy. There's just... no sodding difference. None. Why would there be?

I don’t think humans can change sex. I think some humans can feel like they are a different sex.

It doesn’t hurt me to call them by their pronouns they wish to be called by.

Hello, apologies, I'm going to try and answer, though I'm conscious we may be focusing on different issues here and I may have missed some of the posts.
Your questions:

• What is respectful about demands of changing language to suit a person’s philosophical belief about themselves that doesn’t reflect material reality?

• What is respectful about obscured language that is inaccurate being demanded and supported by policy?

So you believe that because you couldn’t correctly identify the sex of your male coworker that you and others should use female language for him? Why? Because he passed in your opinion ?

What would you do if he didn’t pass?

You might be fine with pretending humans can change sex. Some of the rest of us have too much respect for science and biological to do that.

I have people with transgender identities in my daily life that I like and respect.

Respecting them doesn’t mean I have to change my language to suit their philosophical belief about their personal identity. Surely that is respect only going one way- to them and not mutual.

What other group do you act as if you believe their philosophical belief about themselves that is not based on material reality when you don’t? And change your language usage to suit?

Actually I am fine with that. I think of my co worker as a woman and I would not have guessed they were ever a man if they had not told me.